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CANARIES, HYBRIDS, AND BRITISH BIRDS 



(jiiotcil, had a rather strange experience in 

 the mixing of Cinnamon and Green blood. 



" II is pri'tty t^i'iici-ally Urinwii." he says, 

 "Ihal [he younf< willi Ciiiiiaiiinii IcalluT from 



tlu' malin.u of a Ciniiaiiion- 

 A Strange niarkt'ii cdck and a lUack-cycd 

 Experience, lien will he lu'iis. and the 



Green - iiiai'ki'd birds usually 

 cocks. Sonic years af^o, however, I mated a 

 Cinnamon-marked cock lo a Black-eyed hen 

 and a ('.innaniiin-lickcil hen Ijred from lliis 

 l)air. I mated lo a lilaek-eyed c<ick. I'i'om 

 these I got a Green-wing-marked lien whi( li I 

 mated back to her grandfather (the Ginnamon- 

 marked cock), and at least expected to breed 

 Cinnamon-marked hens ; hut to my sm-prise 

 bnlh cocks and hens came Green-marked. 

 Had I been using a Green-marketl cock bred 

 from Cinnamon and a Pink-eyed or Cinnamon- 

 marked hen it would have been dilTerent. I 

 slutuld have ex])ected either Cinnamon-marked 

 cocks or hens or Green-marked cocks and hens. 

 1 uuisl esen now confess I cannot reconcile tlie 

 resull Willi my experience of tlie varii'ly, unless, 

 of c<iiu'se. I he l\\(i crosses of Black-e>ed blood 

 gave a grealer inllucncc ; hut why should it be 

 .so, when one frecpiently gets Cinnamon-marked 

 hens triim a l!lack-eyed hen and Cinnamon- 

 niarked C(ick ? In fad. 1 lia\e bred my best 

 (annamon-mai-kcd hens from such nialing." 



Mr. C'ris|)",s strange ex|icriciice was no 

 donbt due to tlic repeated iiil rodiictioii of 

 birds of a CJreen-niarkcd stiain. Tlie 

 giaiidl'atlier iiiiiiseir was most jirohabh' 

 bred IVdm a Ciiiiianioii-marked eoek and 

 Dark-eyed hen. .■ind il' so it made three 

 generations in wliicli Dark I'xed birds had 

 lieen inl niduced lo Ihe t'iimamon strain 

 in rapid sueeession, and either variety will 

 re])rodnee itselT witli certainty if tiiere lias 

 been no admixluie. 



In claiming birds at a show tiiere will 

 always be niieertainty as to connection 

 with the Cinnainon, but in 

 ]iurcliasiiio From a b|-eeder 

 pedigri'c should he aseei-taincd 

 and the birds ])aired aceordinL;']\-. As a 

 rule the best residls and markings nl' an 

 Uneven charaeter are obtained by pair- 

 ing a Clear Pink-eyed to a Cimiamon- 

 niarked. or a Cinnamon-marked bred lr(nn 

 such ])airing to a Cinn,inu)n-tickcd. IT 

 two Cinnamon-.Marks are jiaired together, 

 tlie young arc liable tu be much too 



The Best 

 Results. 



heavily marked — some, indeed, almost sell 



Cinnamon. 



The Cinnamon-marked Yorkshire is a 



most handsome bird. Mr. Crisp says ot 



it : "A really nicely marked 



Opinions specimen is, to my mind, the 



o*' '^"^ most beautiful iJird ol the 



Cinnamon= . 



marked. variety, and the production 



of nicely marked cocks has 



always presented greater dillieultics than 



hens.'' Mr. H. W, Uattye says : '• The 



Cinnamon-marked Yorkshire has always 



been a favourite of mine; some say it is 



not so robust as the Dark-eyed bird, but 



my experience is that it is quite as robust 



as its Dark-eyed brother." In breeding 



Ciniiamon-]Marks we have found them just 



as robust as the Green-marked and Clear 



Dark-eyed Yorkshire. 



We spoke of the Lancashire and IJdgiau 



having ])layed an important part in the 



production of the jircsent-day 



Influence Yorkshire, and, of course, 



of the , 4. • 1 . 



J , . wherever resort is made to 



Lancashire 



and Belgian, cither Source now the results 

 haV'C to be refined down for 

 two or three generations by selecting the 

 most suitable birds to ])air back to the 

 Yorkshire. A Belgian, the cross usually 

 selected now, should for this pur]>ose have 

 as little shoulder as jiossibk'. pro\ iding he 

 |)ossesses other good points of the breed, 

 and the ^'orksllire most suitable as a mate 

 should ha\c good length, nice round head, 

 but a shade larger llian lliat of a typical 

 show Yorkshire ; the neck, also, should be 

 a shade full, l)ut not short or "" bull- 

 ncekcd." 'i'lu' body should lie long and 

 pro])ortioiiate, feather close, and breast 

 nicely rouiuled. .Such birds, as a rule, do 

 not ))OSsess much " swagger," but the 

 Hclgian puts Ihal right as well as the other 

 pidperl ies. 



Mr. .b)hu ]{idadley says : 



'■ \ii[\ will llnil il iK'iiclicial souu'limcs to 

 iiilroduce a nice long <piarlcr-bred liclgian and 

 ^■orkslure. one that is \cry straight and smooth 

 in teal her. .\ cross of this sort gels \our birds 

 more stylish and racy in appearance." 



Mr. U. L. Crisp, who has used the 

 lielgian cross with success, says of it : 



